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we have used a transparent consensus-based process to scope this study. we expect the science advisory board to have a meeting on this study parameters on monday. all of that has been opened. we have vetted the people who sit on the board to make sure they don't have undue conflicts of interest so that we don't have folks later worried that the study was somehow skewed. with all those safeguards that we have put in place i'm certainly not going to be close minded to say we don't need to look to make sure that we are doing everything right. so that is why i am going to go tomorrow to pennsylvania, to philadelphia to our office to try to understand what the state of play is there. the last question was about the national study. the budget this year calls for $6 million for that national study and i think congress last year or the year before, can't remember, were authorizing for your leadership in ensuring we have the study money. the only thing i will say is we have to spend money wisely. so i will not say that the national study should need only study sir
we have used a transparent consensus-based process to scope this study. we expect the science advisory board to have a meeting on this study parameters on monday. all of that has been opened. we have vetted the people who sit on the board to make sure they don't have undue conflicts of interest so that we don't have folks later worried that the study was somehow skewed. with all those safeguards that we have put in place i'm certainly not going to be close minded to say we don't need to look to...
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us but his words that afternoon ar, useful to us to hear thisn our afternoon when we are again at the moment of apparel in our country. and again, we will sink or swim together. address as lincoln closed that inaugurae dr
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it's a wise use of money. otherwise, we should certainly not be tieing the hands of our scientists and trying to understand this, while at the same time, recognizing maybe the article didn't do the greatest job of portraying that many states who are used to drilling have done significant work in regulating the fracking and drilling and natural gas recovery process. states have sort of taken a timeout to get it right. >> i deeply appreciate that. if i could respond briefly. i deeply appreciate that. i know you are doing a lot of things that are very, very important and need to be done. but also there's a lot of damage that's being taken place right now. that damage is going to increase dramatically, rapidly over the course of the next couple of years. if nothing is being done to try to control and oversee there's going to be a lot of damage to a lot of people. all of that is important. there are a number of things that could be done by the congress. one the things that could be done and should be done by the co
it's a wise use of money. otherwise, we should certainly not be tieing the hands of our scientists and trying to understand this, while at the same time, recognizing maybe the article didn't do the greatest job of portraying that many states who are used to drilling have done significant work in regulating the fracking and drilling and natural gas recovery process. states have sort of taken a timeout to get it right. >> i deeply appreciate that. if i could respond briefly. i deeply...
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you have helped us get to over 100. can you please help us get to 300? the number one source of information on how people signed up for this pilot his family and friends. he well could be incredibly helpful to us in this area. commander, i'm going to ask nancy to resend her mission to today. if you see what considered this deletion. i can think of no greater source of communication to young veterans and the family and friends of the american legion community. i ask for your assistance humbly. [applause] you know, it's great that we've been come to a national conference in washington d.c. we need to remember that in america, 17% of americans live in rural america, but 37% of veterans live in rural america. for a long time, veterans from rural america have been underserved when it comes to employment. we realized this last year when we launched a pilot program in washington state, a very innovative partnership, will commit veterans service organizations, state government teams, corp. for community service, were the first time we get boots on the ground in
you have helped us get to over 100. can you please help us get to 300? the number one source of information on how people signed up for this pilot his family and friends. he well could be incredibly helpful to us in this area. commander, i'm going to ask nancy to resend her mission to today. if you see what considered this deletion. i can think of no greater source of communication to young veterans and the family and friends of the american legion community. i ask for your assistance humbly....
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you can also send us an e-mail at booktv@cspan.org or send us a tweet, twitter.com/booktv. next call for professor maier comes from william in manhattan beach, california. william, thanks for holding. you're on the air. >> caller: thank you. and, professor maier, and i want to know how you say your name, that's first. [laughter] you're a national treasure, thank you, madam. >> guest: well, thank you, thank you. i say maier because i inherited the pronunciation from the family of my husband to whom i will soon be married for 50 years. so, you know, at this point it would seem to me to change the pronunciation would be an act of hostility. however, i will say i answer to meyer as well, and two of my daughters have chosen to pronounce it meyer, so it gets a little confusing in this family. >> caller: maier it is, and i have two quick questions. on booktv a year or two ago i saw a gentleman talking about his book that put the american revolution as much on the -- [inaudible] and the constitution, he put it in perspective worldwide and said that the american revolution was small
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i don't use that language actually. i don't use antifederalists unless the people described accepted it or it appears in a quotation because it suggests there were parties. there were no parties. national parties did emerge in the 1790s out of congress first of all in divisions over hamilton's financial plan and over foreign policy, and here jefferson and madison became the leaders of what became known as the jefferson republican party, and they opposed the centralizing trend of the washington administration particularly in so far as washington being influenced by hamilton, and, of course, they didn't like john adams and his administration either, so you did get the beginning of a kind of party politics there. then they kind of die off by the 1820s, and emerge again, so you have the jacksonian democrats and what was known as the wig party, and they fall apart in the 1850s when you get the new republican party of the lincoln who opposes the old democratic party, and those actually were some tendencies still with us. it's
i don't use that language actually. i don't use antifederalists unless the people described accepted it or it appears in a quotation because it suggests there were parties. there were no parties. national parties did emerge in the 1790s out of congress first of all in divisions over hamilton's financial plan and over foreign policy, and here jefferson and madison became the leaders of what became known as the jefferson republican party, and they opposed the centralizing trend of the washington...
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the cabdriver use the word into canned disruptor. we have our work to do to protect future generations. thank you. >> mr. kohl? >> thank you very much mr. chairman. i have a couple of specific questions one in particular a colleague asked and i have more general one that he asked me to put to you and this is mr. young from alaska. i'm going to read the question and he asked were due process is an basic in basic notions of fairness considered when you rescinded a properly issued permit on the desert rock power plant. that bill has said this plant will be the cleanest coal plant in the united states. this doesn't mean clean air standards within a coal plant be able to do so going forward? i want to tell you ahead of time i don't know this issue particularly well but he particularly asked he have an opportunity to address it. >> is that a new mexico? >> again i wish i could tell you more. aegis of the desert rock our plan. >> i believe he is talking about a title v petition for a coal-fired power plant. >> this is a native american angl
the cabdriver use the word into canned disruptor. we have our work to do to protect future generations. thank you. >> mr. kohl? >> thank you very much mr. chairman. i have a couple of specific questions one in particular a colleague asked and i have more general one that he asked me to put to you and this is mr. young from alaska. i'm going to read the question and he asked were due process is an basic in basic notions of fairness considered when you rescinded a properly issued...
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that surprised us, frankly. there is an attempt to try to organize this better and a recognition that this is a real problem. we will benefit from your recommendations greatly, and a look forward to them. >> they need operational responsibility. >> that is the problem. interestingly enough, and this now goes back a while, we had a hearing here maybe two years ago now. it's somewhat dated, but a hearing with some leaders of the muslim american community. we asked, is there any agency of the federal government that has gone out reach to your community which has done the most? to me the surprising answer we got was, yes, the fbi through its state offices had been reaching out quite a lot and had some communication the nypd sets the standard. it has committed -- not inexpensive, labor intensive. they have committed a lot, maybe because they were so struck, traumatized by 9/11 they have committed a lot of resources and excellent communication with the muslim american community. the lapd does a great job, but there ar
that surprised us, frankly. there is an attempt to try to organize this better and a recognition that this is a real problem. we will benefit from your recommendations greatly, and a look forward to them. >> they need operational responsibility. >> that is the problem. interestingly enough, and this now goes back a while, we had a hearing here maybe two years ago now. it's somewhat dated, but a hearing with some leaders of the muslim american community. we asked, is there any agency...
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comment is buckle up america we're not going back to a gentler time but where we go, politics make us in a call which has a new platform to stand on and our commitment to civil discourse that we can make an impact if i think our panelists for being here and all of you for being here as well. [applause] the books will be available for citing in assigning area. just west of the student union. thank you very much. >> that concludes our coverage of the 2011 tucson of books. we have them live all weekend if you have missed any of the events that coverage will air tonight starting at 1:00 a.m. eastern. [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] [no audio] as it did to ship them across the atlantic. it was enormously difficult to access the wealth. there was a great transportation network, chicago, which was formed starting off on the illinois and michigan can now had a great wateree park rails only supplemented that transportation network every city and the major waterway for the river mead says c. where it meets the mississippi river.
comment is buckle up america we're not going back to a gentler time but where we go, politics make us in a call which has a new platform to stand on and our commitment to civil discourse that we can make an impact if i think our panelists for being here and all of you for being here as well. [applause] the books will be available for citing in assigning area. just west of the student union. thank you very much. >> that concludes our coverage of the 2011 tucson of books. we have them live...
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all we ask of you, let us governor medicaid problems a little bit more. not completely, a little bit more. and it was the biggest fight of ever been in. mark and i would look at each other and just shake our heads and they, what's wrong with these guys? they wanted to fight sites that we weren't even hounding. it can't be an important lesson that the further you wrote about from the shore, the more likely you are to be lost at sea. i'm convinced we've got a lot of folks in this city who are lost at sea. justice brandeis in 1932 and i quote him because i think it's an important quote in the book, he spoke of states of being laboratories for experiments in government. this is the idea our founders had, that the states would be where the power was distributed and they would have the opportunity to try things. sometimes bold things. sometimes those things wouldn't work. and when they didn't work, not all the would make the mistake of attempting them, but that would've been one thing that was tried and put aside. mentally try something else. if it did work, al
all we ask of you, let us governor medicaid problems a little bit more. not completely, a little bit more. and it was the biggest fight of ever been in. mark and i would look at each other and just shake our heads and they, what's wrong with these guys? they wanted to fight sites that we weren't even hounding. it can't be an important lesson that the further you wrote about from the shore, the more likely you are to be lost at sea. i'm convinced we've got a lot of folks in this city who are...
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one that really kept us occupied for much time. one explanation is because they are boys. they were very young when they came here, and they never really, you know, had a chance to grow in the chinese system. most of them never atepidded anything beyond -- attended the rudimentary level of chinese education. this culture is what they need. the second explanation that is more met metaphysical is that they were trained -- there's a famous poem that says a young boy who wants to be someone turns away from the window, sits down, and reads, and here they come to america where a young boy who wants to be someone gets on the baseball field and plays ball, rides a horse, takes a gun and shoots, dances with girls, is allowed to look his elders in the eyes. this is a revelation for them. they were extremely, extremely happy with it. the third thing i say is they came here at a time when the country was really, really, really thriving. you know, on the way on the transcontinental railroad, they could see things like the automated reaper and the plow, and there's an energy they felt a
one that really kept us occupied for much time. one explanation is because they are boys. they were very young when they came here, and they never really, you know, had a chance to grow in the chinese system. most of them never atepidded anything beyond -- attended the rudimentary level of chinese education. this culture is what they need. the second explanation that is more met metaphysical is that they were trained -- there's a famous poem that says a young boy who wants to be someone turns...
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i used i used the term is a catchall, multiculturalism, john dewey. from the reading i've done on the subject and i am not an educator, development in young children is afforded by the education system, which by the way happens to be dominated by women ironically. what is your take on progressive education? i mean what i'm trying to say io were children once start somewhere and it grows up with pseudo-self-esteem and so forth so could you address that please? >> well, i think christina has written about primary education and the way that it is unfriendly to boys. for one thing we have seen a big decline in, or a big transformation in the kinds of looks that students, young students are being asked to read. you won't find the adventure adventure books anymore, or not very much. different kinds of books that might have appealed to boys. i remember reviewing a book some time ago about the change in textbooks, history textbooks. and the writer there said that if you were to look at the updated textbooks, the post-feminist textbooks about the settling of t
i used i used the term is a catchall, multiculturalism, john dewey. from the reading i've done on the subject and i am not an educator, development in young children is afforded by the education system, which by the way happens to be dominated by women ironically. what is your take on progressive education? i mean what i'm trying to say io were children once start somewhere and it grows up with pseudo-self-esteem and so forth so could you address that please? >> well, i think christina...
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tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/book tv. >> the president obama issued a proclamation that this is read across america today. [applause] alright, president obama. there we go. and so we are grateful that he did that and we are especially grateful to mrs. obama and secretary duncan. please welcome our special readers. let's hear it for them. [applause] >> alright you guys. sounds like you are pretty excited, right? what are you excited about? [laughter] thank you. we are also we are also excited about reading, right? in our house we read all the time. do you know that? the president is a reader. he read so much, he knows facts about everything. do you guys want to be fat people? so you have got to read in order to do that and we are going to start out by reading something. secretary duncan and i wear were big dr. seuss fans. arnie d. want to talk about your reading? >> they both have two children at home who are a little bit older than most of you guys. if we had a nickel for every dr. seuss book we read
tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/book tv. >> the president obama issued a proclamation that this is read across america today. [applause] alright, president obama. there we go. and so we are grateful that he did that and we are especially grateful to mrs. obama and secretary duncan. please welcome our special readers. let's hear it for them. [applause] >> alright you guys. sounds like you are pretty excited, right? what are you excited about? [laughter] thank you. we are also we...
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that was a sort of heartfelt discovery for us. yes? [inaudible] >> their children and their children's children made it and went to yale and mit and harvard. >> the ones who came here had the misfortune. the ones who came -- had a hard time but their children went to yale and harvard. the ones who came here died very young. one died as a child a couple months after he decided to stay. he was adopted by this beautiful family in connecticut who had lost a son in the civil war and this young man was their second gift from god. he died of flu a few months after he hopped on a train. another one was murdered in new york city. really grisly and bad faith. but those who came back, many of them send their children to be educated in america. these children came back to china. a lot of third and fourth generation lived here. any other questions? >> my great-grandfather is in your book. >> oh my! >> i don't speak chinese. my last name is jane. you have expelled two way is. hy was known as great grandpa tie. >> there is a note in translation. we h
that was a sort of heartfelt discovery for us. yes? [inaudible] >> their children and their children's children made it and went to yale and mit and harvard. >> the ones who came here had the misfortune. the ones who came -- had a hard time but their children went to yale and harvard. the ones who came here died very young. one died as a child a couple months after he decided to stay. he was adopted by this beautiful family in connecticut who had lost a son in the civil war and this...
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my parents red to us every night. it instilled in us the love of reading. the more you read for pleasure, whatever it is, storyings, mysteries, adventure, comic books, nonfiction, whatever it is, read for fun. if you do that, you'll do very, very well the rest of your lives. ready to hear a story? [cheers and applause] >> green eggs and ham. have you heard that one before? i am sam. i am sam. sam i am. that's sam i am. that's sam i am. i do not like that sam i am. do you like green eggs and ham? >> i do not like them, sam i am. i do not like green eggs and ham. >> would you like them here or there? >> i would not like them here or there. i would not like them anywhere. i do not like green eggs and ham. i do not like them, sam, i am. >> would you like them in a house? would you like them with a mouse? >> i do not like them in a house. i do not like them with a mouse. i do not like them here or there. i do not like them anywhere. i do not like green eggs and ham. i do not like them sam i am. >> would you eat them in a box? would you eat them with a fox? >> no
my parents red to us every night. it instilled in us the love of reading. the more you read for pleasure, whatever it is, storyings, mysteries, adventure, comic books, nonfiction, whatever it is, read for fun. if you do that, you'll do very, very well the rest of your lives. ready to hear a story? [cheers and applause] >> green eggs and ham. have you heard that one before? i am sam. i am sam. sam i am. that's sam i am. that's sam i am. i do not like that sam i am. do you like green eggs...
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people do and they use their minds. and you're talking about a war where machines to fight and people don't. and they don't use their minds. >> and on that note i think we want to thank these heroes, both for the truth and for the taxpayer, the three you spend your lives were. i want to invite the audience to thank all of you for all of your life work. [applause] [applause] >> you can download a pdf version of the pentagon's labyrinth for free through the center for defense information's website. go to cdi.org. >> booktv is covered over 9000 nonfiction authors and books since 1989 when it all began with book notes, c-span's original hour-long author interview program. you can watch these programs online at booktv.org. now i'm booktv, kay hymowitz says that males in the '20s and '30s prefer to put off adulthood while women, partially driven by their biological clocks, are as driven as ever. she says this phenomenon has negative implications for our society. this event was hosted by the manhattan institute in new york cit
people do and they use their minds. and you're talking about a war where machines to fight and people don't. and they don't use their minds. >> and on that note i think we want to thank these heroes, both for the truth and for the taxpayer, the three you spend your lives were. i want to invite the audience to thank all of you for all of your life work. [applause] [applause] >> you can download a pdf version of the pentagon's labyrinth for free through the center for defense...
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and they have a lot to tell us. some of these things you might think of comedies are such new problems, what could they possibly learn from the founders, but, in fact, they dealt with all these things. for example, there's a financial panic in 1791 that alexander hamilton dealt with, and he did not bailout any banks. >> were there any surprises in your research or things that you hadn't seen before? >> absolutely. i have to say as a conservative i'm kind of bent towards private schools. what i found was that all of the founders were in favor of the public schools. but was it was important was what they thought should be taught and what should be taught was patriotic history, math and religion. >> any other revelation? >> there's a lot in there about guns. we are chapter about guns and gun ownership. i think a couple of the recent supreme court cases have pretty much reaffirmed what the founder said, which is gun ownership was meant to be an individual right, not just for personal defense, but so that the people coll
and they have a lot to tell us. some of these things you might think of comedies are such new problems, what could they possibly learn from the founders, but, in fact, they dealt with all these things. for example, there's a financial panic in 1791 that alexander hamilton dealt with, and he did not bailout any banks. >> were there any surprises in your research or things that you hadn't seen before? >> absolutely. i have to say as a conservative i'm kind of bent towards private...
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>> well, what i will do in giving you a response now is use the same language we've used in response to violence against journalists in those parts of the world that you mentioned. we are aware of the reports of the foreign journalists being detained or physically harassed in beijing and we find those reports disturbing. we call on the chinese government respect the rights of the foreign journalists to report in china and urged public security authorities to protect the safety and well-being of anyone who is the subject to a legal harassment or intimidation i believe ambassador hans minn at our embassy in beijing put out a statement, and i refer you to that for more information, but we obviously do not think that this is acceptable for journalists not to be a will to do the work and to be harassed or detect the the two detained. sorry, i guess. >> i heard you mention representative government and also moving towards democracy. is it your position that the people in all these countries in the region deserve the right to elect their leaders three elections? >> we support democracy. we
>> well, what i will do in giving you a response now is use the same language we've used in response to violence against journalists in those parts of the world that you mentioned. we are aware of the reports of the foreign journalists being detained or physically harassed in beijing and we find those reports disturbing. we call on the chinese government respect the rights of the foreign journalists to report in china and urged public security authorities to protect the safety and...
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we've used it, but it's worth using again, and we have hundreds. qualcomm, a country very well-known, it developed the software primarily that allows wireless communication 20 years ago. nobody ever heard of qualcomm and very few people had cell phones that weighed, you know, less than three pounds each, as i remember. but 25 to 30 people came together with dr. jacobs. they sat in his den. he testified before our committee just last week on this. and he said, through the sbir program, their initial idea got a couple a hundred thousand dollars and then phase 2, they got $1.5 million, which is what this program does, incentivizing our giving grants or contracts to very -- to emerging technologies, well before a bank would take a look, well before venture capital funds would even look their direction. you have to develop the technology to a point and then have it launched. this is where there's what he described the valley of death. you know, great ideas, but there's just not a lot of patient capital out there, and particularly in this recessionary pe
we've used it, but it's worth using again, and we have hundreds. qualcomm, a country very well-known, it developed the software primarily that allows wireless communication 20 years ago. nobody ever heard of qualcomm and very few people had cell phones that weighed, you know, less than three pounds each, as i remember. but 25 to 30 people came together with dr. jacobs. they sat in his den. he testified before our committee just last week on this. and he said, through the sbir program, their...
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very few people use them. the number of people have used them are people who are terminal within six months and who number in the hundreds. many who went through the process of applying for this didn't do it. most people are not going to commit suicide under any circumstances. but i believe that for people who are in unbearable pain, it is a rational choice. and i don't agree at all that everybody who wants to commit suicide is a rational or depressed. and i think this is part of patronizing. i don't deny for a minute that there are some people who are depressed. for example, i will give you an example of people who are depressed. there are people, people in the '60s and '70s who, when you receive a diagnosis of something like multiple sclerosis, or parkinson's, which you're eventually going to die of but unlike alzheimer's or some forms of cancer, they are manageable and treatable and you could have a meaningful life for a long time. they are not a death sentence, but there are people who treat that kind of a
very few people use them. the number of people have used them are people who are terminal within six months and who number in the hundreds. many who went through the process of applying for this didn't do it. most people are not going to commit suicide under any circumstances. but i believe that for people who are in unbearable pain, it is a rational choice. and i don't agree at all that everybody who wants to commit suicide is a rational or depressed. and i think this is part of patronizing. i...
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we all have an individual responsibility to use every gift god gave us to the best of our ability. that's it? >> one more. >> okay. >> i think one of the things that struck me and my short time, i say short time, about 20 years in the business, is you mentioned the people of color who are at the top. there are -- while there's there's a great number of people like yourself making it a part of their montra to reach back, there's an equal number of those who basically decided i got mine, you go get yours. >> yes. >> i mean, what is the psychology behind that because they don't come from my time. they are certainly older than me, and is there any way, you know, any way to turn that around and make more of them responsible for what it is that they're supposed to do? >> i sometime treat my brothers and sisters who come from that environment as though they were foreign students, and that's why i wrote this book. i think they need to read and hear more of that from those of us who took the long route. a lot of us were chosen for the harvard scholarships and other groups living wherever pe
we all have an individual responsibility to use every gift god gave us to the best of our ability. that's it? >> one more. >> okay. >> i think one of the things that struck me and my short time, i say short time, about 20 years in the business, is you mentioned the people of color who are at the top. there are -- while there's there's a great number of people like yourself making it a part of their montra to reach back, there's an equal number of those who basically decided i...
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the gracious ones who helped us up and actually gave us a break in our lives, and encouraged us and gave us the encouragement and direction we needed when absolutely no one else would. they didn't even think that we would be worth the trouble, and i know better than to think that any good thing in my life was preordained. i know that. and i've come this far only because long ago that he people in my life thought i was actually worth the trouble. and thank goodness for that. president reagan said the man quote didn't base his rating on gains won or lost, but on the record, the player in later life. what kind of man and the boy had become. i had a couple of coaches just like that. whose good influence i can still feel today. i still have a relationship with these coaches, these mentors in my life today. and they found a decent work ethic in me and reinforces on a daily basis. they toughened up my inside game. they gave me confidence to play with the best, and to never, ever let the other team inside my head. those are the strengths that will serve you well in any line of work. and let
the gracious ones who helped us up and actually gave us a break in our lives, and encouraged us and gave us the encouragement and direction we needed when absolutely no one else would. they didn't even think that we would be worth the trouble, and i know better than to think that any good thing in my life was preordained. i know that. and i've come this far only because long ago that he people in my life thought i was actually worth the trouble. and thank goodness for that. president reagan...
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all of us together and mrs. obama and secretary duncan and dr. billington, we want to do a readers pledge with you. are you ready? >> yes. >> you got to raise your right hand. your other right hand. raise your hand. >> let's see all the hands. >> now, when you hear me say something i want you to repeat it after me so nice and loud, are you ready? are you ready? >> yeah! >> all right! i promise to read. >> i promise to read. >> each and each night. >> each day and each night. >> i know it's the key. >> to growing up right. >> i'll read to myself. i'll read to a crowd. it makes no difference. it's silent or loud. i'll read at my desk. at home and at school. on my bean bag or bed. by the fire or the pool. each book that i read puts smarts in my head. 'cause brains agree more thoughts. the more they are fed. so i take this oath. to make reading my way. of feeding my brain what it needs every day. all right, everybody, clap. [applause] >> booktv will be covering the virginia festival of the book live online on thursday march 17th and friday march 18th
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how might they help us adapt? forests and wetlands are great at absorbing storm water so that is one thing i talk about in some detail in the book but didn't get into as expectation for -- i talked about higher precipitation but you expect more hurricanes. more extreme events and more floods. they help with that and also the temperature rises from shade and evaporative cooling. some of the lessons we apply on more regional scale, these big picture ideas would be that in humid areas like the tropics and eastern u.s. we can hope -- things we can do to help flood protection. we are getting extreme floods and expected to get worse. sea level rise will increase floods. doing things for flood protection, puts in more wetlands tubes of floods. but that will be a good way to keep our cities, held the lead at to climate change and in humid areas, a really good idea because we know these have been on the job taking of greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide in particular and to help them do that job would be a great thing but o
how might they help us adapt? forests and wetlands are great at absorbing storm water so that is one thing i talk about in some detail in the book but didn't get into as expectation for -- i talked about higher precipitation but you expect more hurricanes. more extreme events and more floods. they help with that and also the temperature rises from shade and evaporative cooling. some of the lessons we apply on more regional scale, these big picture ideas would be that in humid areas like the...
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i want you to use that as a leaping off point to tell us what you identify as the challenges you face as mayor of the city was five cities with education challenges and what is the opportunity? >> the number you are talking about is one of our school districts -- in indianapolis we have 11 school districts and 80% overall graduate in indianapolis. we have a difficult school system as others do with larger cities across the nation but what we have done in indianapolis is have chamber of commerce started a program called the common goal. a few years ago for instance across the city of indianapolis, graduation rate was around 69%. now it is at 80. within that district the urban district if you will, graduation rate is 56%. what we have done is put graduation coaches in the schools. we put people into the schools from communities and nonprofits work very hard to make sure those kids have a resources and teachers. >> uconn graduation coaches. >> chamber of commerce put in against the united way which is a tremendous part in indianapolis. so many other people in larger companies have come t
i want you to use that as a leaping off point to tell us what you identify as the challenges you face as mayor of the city was five cities with education challenges and what is the opportunity? >> the number you are talking about is one of our school districts -- in indianapolis we have 11 school districts and 80% overall graduate in indianapolis. we have a difficult school system as others do with larger cities across the nation but what we have done in indianapolis is have chamber of...
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us opt out. we can't live under these mandates. but the president's solution is to cram more people on to medicaid, a program that doesn't work, where many doctors won't see these patients, where the reimbursements are so low, hospitals say we can't afford to see these patients because of the impact it will have. you know, even the -- the actuaries, the people that look at this, the fair and appropriate way to look at the numbers say 15% of the hospitals in this country ten years from now may not be able to b be open because of the way that this health care law is going. that's not going to provide more access. it's providing less access. and why have seniors rejected this so overwhelmingly? seniors have looked at this and they see $500 billion in medicare cuts. and things like medicare advantage. and there's an advantage to income that program. that's why one out of four seniors have set up that progr program. and have chosen that program. it's because they want choice. and this health care law
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just confirm for us, dr. giordano, how much difference to make it jerry parr turned that part the hospital? >> it was the critical decision of the day, no question about it. because the president, as he walked -- ki insisted on walking into gw, he got just past the front door and collapsed for blood pressure. even as young healthy person that's pretty serious, you can only last a few minutes before you have irreversible changes, and the president 7-years-old, albeit a very healthy seven year old. so i think -- just think it, but at the white house, pull him out of the car, looked him over, bring him to the room inside, put him in the car and realize there's a problem, taken to gw, that is five, ten, 15 minutes. that would have made a huge difference. i don't think he would have survived it. >> cingular arrived -- the timeframe the shooting happened at 2:27, approximately. six shots got off in less than two seconds. how long the for the hospital was dealing with this? it was just a matter of a few more minutes
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to put enormous energy into our recruitment process and also requires us to scale up a lot. we have grown from 1,000 to 8 tracks and teachers in the last ten years but we have equally ambitious goals around increasing the measurable impact of teachers during their two years because we think it is critical for their kids and critical for the lessons they learned. in pursuit of that we tried many different things. we put in place measurement systems ourselves that were a very well-intentioned and all sorts of -- tried lots of strategies and ultimately if we got into the ins and outs of that you see the limitations of leading with measurable -- measurable results are critical but it is about mort than that and i think the culture that you build and keeping everyone grounded in what this is all about and the spirit of truly putting kids on a different trajectory, creating the right balance between a focus on measurable results and keeping everyone grounded in that spirit at the same time is a puzzle and we fear too much -- i hope we are making it happen around the spirit of thin
to put enormous energy into our recruitment process and also requires us to scale up a lot. we have grown from 1,000 to 8 tracks and teachers in the last ten years but we have equally ambitious goals around increasing the measurable impact of teachers during their two years because we think it is critical for their kids and critical for the lessons they learned. in pursuit of that we tried many different things. we put in place measurement systems ourselves that were a very well-intentioned and...
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electronics are putting us into the future. but the big thing to remember, there's 408 million people in north america and maybe maximum 200 million people in south america. outside of our boundaries there's six billion people. you've got two sides of the hemisphere. we're the food producers of the world, and they're the producers of industrial products, and we developed this swap market which i learned how to do swaps there which is the most valuable thing i could have ever learned if my life, and we will propel, we will build jobs around the food industry just like china with their 17 vital trace elements will build steel and all of these things. but it's got to be a world of futures or -- >> and i have to say when i first started writing this, i had no idea what you just said. hopefully, if you read the book, you'll say, ah, i know what charlie's talking about. it sounds scary, but charlie knows all this because he knew it when he traded cattle, and there really is a progression so that what he says starts to make some sense
electronics are putting us into the future. but the big thing to remember, there's 408 million people in north america and maybe maximum 200 million people in south america. outside of our boundaries there's six billion people. you've got two sides of the hemisphere. we're the food producers of the world, and they're the producers of industrial products, and we developed this swap market which i learned how to do swaps there which is the most valuable thing i could have ever learned if my life,...
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i use this event at the beginning of the book to just -- because i think it helps us to apprehend the appeal of the underground readers in the 196 0s. they put across sharply argued and forcefully written opinions and grew out of their own subculture and was the examiner, the flag ship of the hearse newspaper chain uses this prefab bring kateed -- fabricated newspapers. they started emerging in the mid-60s. someone pointed out they technically represented one of the most large spontaneous groups in publishing. there were five related newspapers. there was the east villager, the fifth of state in detroit, and for me and matt because we went to michigan state, the first campus based newspaper was in east lancing, michigan. towards the end of 1966, the papers spouted up quickly in every pocket and region of the country. by the end of the 60s, there were hundreds of newspapers in every city, campus, community with a readership that stretched into the millions combined. people sometimes asked how i got interested into the topic. it started with my dissertation at columbia. first i used the
i use this event at the beginning of the book to just -- because i think it helps us to apprehend the appeal of the underground readers in the 196 0s. they put across sharply argued and forcefully written opinions and grew out of their own subculture and was the examiner, the flag ship of the hearse newspaper chain uses this prefab bring kateed -- fabricated newspapers. they started emerging in the mid-60s. someone pointed out they technically represented one of the most large spontaneous...
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did her publisher want -- use said her name wasn't always associated with the books. she didn't want her name on the book. but from commercial standpoint, did the publisher want her name on the book? >> i think they would have liked her name on the look but they didn't press her, they didn't press her on that and i didn't come across anybody asking her on the publisher's part, on the publisher's point of view to actually do it. oftentimes, her authors would say jackie can i please acknowledge you at least? because she did contribute to the book itself. and oftentimes, they said please, don't put me in the acknowledgement. peter, for example, want to put in the three golden keys, this book which was a profitable book actually a children's book about prague, he wanted her in the college and she said no, but he drew a little picture of his daughter in a cat costume same thing he for the dream, j.o.. so she's there. [laughter] >> one more question. >> actually, there's one right there. did you get cooperation or discussion with family members? >> the head of doubleday --
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he's quitting us -- visiting us from qatar. sitting to my right is is -- wee thinking of the diplomat actually who has had a long career which is the modern leading business associations in the country. to my immediate left, jackie kameel who is the director of the civil society in egypt. to her left is awais sufi, and finally at the far end of the table is awais sufi who is -- sorry, amira maaty who is in the international endowment for democracy. quite a range of expertise and interest on the panel. we'll begin with asking each of the panelist to make five minutes of remarks according to their own interest and themes. let me begin then with jackie kameel to my immediate left. >> hi, everyone. i speak about expectations of the civil society and the needs that would actually help us do a better job in the new egypt. so basically the role of the civil society is for me is identifying gaps and issues and trying to come up with solutions to help close the gaps or sort them. for example, in the area of job creation and employment,
he's quitting us -- visiting us from qatar. sitting to my right is is -- wee thinking of the diplomat actually who has had a long career which is the modern leading business associations in the country. to my immediate left, jackie kameel who is the director of the civil society in egypt. to her left is awais sufi, and finally at the far end of the table is awais sufi who is -- sorry, amira maaty who is in the international endowment for democracy. quite a range of expertise and interest on the...
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they are reasonably well off and elizabeth johnston's father is able to sell off the sleeves and use the proceeds to move on in their case to britain. britain will detect a theme in all these places. they were not real happy in the places the end of going and britain was no exception. the johnstons and unsettling because william johnston of the medical students and at that time edwin bird had the best medical school so they go there. he finishes his medical training but like many of the refugees they find the opportunities for employment are not so great. there's already a lot of professionals in britain and they don't miss a surly need the colonial upstarts' to fill in the ranks so they move on again under the patronage of the war time supporter of williams to jamaica and the last part of the story that i will tell you about in a little more depth is their experience in jamaica which at the time was the richest colony in the british empire and seen on the fees' a an alluring place for the refugees. its beauty could take your breath away from the sparkling surface of the water, swept
they are reasonably well off and elizabeth johnston's father is able to sell off the sleeves and use the proceeds to move on in their case to britain. britain will detect a theme in all these places. they were not real happy in the places the end of going and britain was no exception. the johnstons and unsettling because william johnston of the medical students and at that time edwin bird had the best medical school so they go there. he finishes his medical training but like many of the...
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many governors, including governor of utah, governor barbour for mississippi with us today have already spoken out and ask health and human services to relieve them of some the restricted health care mandates, including the maintenance provisions. the responses they've received have not been encouraging. so i look forward to hearing from an assisted gamut of first-hand what the impacts for obamacare will be on the state and medicaid programs another state health programs. i'm also interested in hearing ideas to provide access to quality care for greater numbers of people while keeping costs under control. at this time i buy to yield one minute to do your gingrich. >> and yielding, new cbo numbers on obamacare a rat in the news and mrs. devlin i could. cost of increased by four to 60 billion in just two years in state medicaid costs rose by 300%, $20,000,000,060,000,000,000 in state reform programs are doing a better job of screening out individuals who don't belong in the program in order to deal with these crushing halls. no they can't. obamacare spread and tries to build changes that
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give us the nos shell explanation. >> guest: it's interesting. this bizarre time in society was almost obsessed with what's going on in the east and china and the other places. of course, it's fascinating, but my book is really about the errors made here in the united states and europe. it's a home-grown program on policy nothing to do with china, things like education, all the structural problems like infrastructure and energy problems that have nothing to do with china and essential to get right to make sure the u.s. and european countries are back on track. >> host: it's like a couple different books in one book. there's the story of the decline of the west, the rise of the east, and the basic premise of the lines are going to cross. >> guest: you can argue there's an absolute part for sure talking about the west in isolation and what the issues are going on there, and then, of course, we live in an amazing time of china and other emerging economies have done the unthinkable, moving hundreds of thousands of people out of poverty. of course, th
give us the nos shell explanation. >> guest: it's interesting. this bizarre time in society was almost obsessed with what's going on in the east and china and the other places. of course, it's fascinating, but my book is really about the errors made here in the united states and europe. it's a home-grown program on policy nothing to do with china, things like education, all the structural problems like infrastructure and energy problems that have nothing to do with china and essential to...
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it is used for us-based contractors were as jcc has issues for non-us contractors? >> when requested we uploaded these are going to pcl input requirements, typically every 12 months for contracts with performs in excess of one year, and at the end of every contract. dcma afghanistan inputting data into c. par four large -- logcap iv. contingency cmo is also provided by monthly performance evaluation port reports based on monthly audits, focusing on toward the evaluation criteria, technical costs and management. for the logcap iii contract and a logcap iv contract in afghanistan and kuwait. these oddities inputs from dcma quality assurance represent as an appointed contracting officer representatives. ecma corrective action requests, administered contracting officers, customers, usually the camp of mayors, and the contractors of self-assessment. the tvs are compiled into an award field evaluation board every six months and embraced to the theater logcap pm representative. ecma also provides a weekly report on cars issued for the previous 90 days to the logcap program
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so does the use of addictive substances? or crippling depression or debilitating disease that leaves us unable to work. now, under the government's logic the existence of those potential calamities would seem to justify have congress enact an insurance purchase requirement. aflac kind of it goes -- if you lose your job, you're sick they're going to pay for food and rent and all the necessities of life. so we can all have a comprehensive aflac to cover us. and make sure there's no cost shifting. but you know what? you don't need to go into those other markets to demonstrate the silliness, absurdity of a government's uniqueness arguments. i would just stick with the health care market for a second. the government's definition is so broad and capacious and for all the medical goods and services, products and all the arrangements can be used to pay them. that market alone can sustain an infinite number of mandates on the government. why is that? well, the proponents of obamacare and its predecessors have often justified this exe
so does the use of addictive substances? or crippling depression or debilitating disease that leaves us unable to work. now, under the government's logic the existence of those potential calamities would seem to justify have congress enact an insurance purchase requirement. aflac kind of it goes -- if you lose your job, you're sick they're going to pay for food and rent and all the necessities of life. so we can all have a comprehensive aflac to cover us. and make sure there's no cost shifting....
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you will never know what will lead us to the tipping point. [laughter] >> you just bought yourself a good five more nice softball questions. [laughter] >> i don't know. this is growing large at this point. five years ago we had 88,000 and today we have 20,000 and if we can continue the growth trajectory we'll have 40,000 five years from now and i guess i'm looking at some critical communities where we have teach for america alums. communities where we've been placing people for, in some cases 20 years, in new orleans, in washington, d.c., and oakland, california, in houston, texas, in any other number of places, in newark, new jersey. where very different things are happening today for many reasons but if you took all the teach for america alums out of the picture, i think you'd take away of the energy and the leadership in those pictures. >> does the teach for america movement have an ideological personality? >> i think that people come out of this -- and you know we probably have a bunch -- we have a diversion community and people come into
you will never know what will lead us to the tipping point. [laughter] >> you just bought yourself a good five more nice softball questions. [laughter] >> i don't know. this is growing large at this point. five years ago we had 88,000 and today we have 20,000 and if we can continue the growth trajectory we'll have 40,000 five years from now and i guess i'm looking at some critical communities where we have teach for america alums. communities where we've been placing people for, in...
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use this time to learn skills. this is your opportunity. >> host: one thing that interested me is you don't think much of christianity though. >> guest: i don't think much of any organized religion. >> host: not even for the prisons ways that? >> guest: because of organized religion was in any way the peacemaker there wouldn't be all of these religious wars going on in the world. >> host: use it in your family there was religion. >> guest: christianity. >> host: by the way it happened to your brother. your brother went on to harvard and became the superintendent of boston schools cities quite successful pity he didn't stammer. >> guest: he didn't have all. >> host: look what you've become. i think more people know you and your brother. >> guest: . my brother passed away unfortunately, but >> host: so for you at 74, the bottom line that comes in this book is just enough, you've made it. >> guest: just enough. post the that's what you said to mandela. we made it. we made it. just enough at 74. >> guest: this book is
use this time to learn skills. this is your opportunity. >> host: one thing that interested me is you don't think much of christianity though. >> guest: i don't think much of any organized religion. >> host: not even for the prisons ways that? >> guest: because of organized religion was in any way the peacemaker there wouldn't be all of these religious wars going on in the world. >> host: use it in your family there was religion. >> guest: christianity....
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he used it in his struggles with the old elites. i think you make such a compelling case of the eyes of this new american aristocracy against the old proprietor class and merchant class that was the revolutionary generation. they were the right people to run society. vanderbilt challenges them in a significant way. >> this is significant because fender bill is someone who is so often used in a prompt end to the logical arguments the with you should have regulation of robber barons or regulation of free market. i try to avoid making it the logical argument. there is an historical account. very important because to do that much of his life, the economy is different. the way people thought about these questions, it was a different world. for example, lays a share, the idea of limited one no government regulation today is considered a conservative idea. in vanderbilt's time it was a radical idea because he did not have large corporations. the economy was flatter. they fought of government intervention and the economy being chartering a
he used it in his struggles with the old elites. i think you make such a compelling case of the eyes of this new american aristocracy against the old proprietor class and merchant class that was the revolutionary generation. they were the right people to run society. vanderbilt challenges them in a significant way. >> this is significant because fender bill is someone who is so often used in a prompt end to the logical arguments the with you should have regulation of robber barons or...
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they export to us. we export to china. they export to us. we are all interconnected, and by the way, when there are asian flus, those are exported too. let's fight it over there and deal with the flu be it an outbreak in china, be it an outbreak somewhere else. i'd be happy to talk with you further. come on in. >> host: trying to give you news updates on the earthquake and tsunami talking about the federal spending priorities. bbc breaking news. this is a sad story. 300 bodies were found in one city according to japan's news agency, and retweeted by bbc news. next phone call as we are talking with congresswoman lowey. robert, democrat, go ahead, please. >> caller: yes, i just want to say i believe in june 48 the people and people were aware they needed helpment a lot of this money goes to governments that just keep it for themselves. when i was growing up as a kid, i was five kids in a family with a mother. my dad got paid every friday, and you wouldn't see it until sunday afternoon while the family was home starving. i think they need to do
they export to us. we export to china. they export to us. we are all interconnected, and by the way, when there are asian flus, those are exported too. let's fight it over there and deal with the flu be it an outbreak in china, be it an outbreak somewhere else. i'd be happy to talk with you further. come on in. >> host: trying to give you news updates on the earthquake and tsunami talking about the federal spending priorities. bbc breaking news. this is a sad story. 300 bodies were found...
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i think all of us have suggested how much we owe to this country in terms of when it provided us but we bring with us a great deal of what is now. it is diversity, potential, we are a good statement as a whole, diversity on this panel. >> i will also add that one of ways this can be broken is through allowing people through writing in areas ways to hear about the lives of people who joined this country because sometimes people are so removed from the reality of other people's lives that they think an immigrant just comes to this country and fixes everything. it is difficult to be an immigrant. it is not easy. it is a lot of hard work. just as rich americans are working hard, immigrants are coming to join. this perception that people are just coming and taking freely, they are not. they're coming and working hard and bringing something of a value and also gaining something as well. i imagine myself for example. sedna and of us were in this country at all. the average classroom setting at the university, will frankly be quite boring. in my opinion. i am serious. it sadly would be. it w
i think all of us have suggested how much we owe to this country in terms of when it provided us but we bring with us a great deal of what is now. it is diversity, potential, we are a good statement as a whole, diversity on this panel. >> i will also add that one of ways this can be broken is through allowing people through writing in areas ways to hear about the lives of people who joined this country because sometimes people are so removed from the reality of other people's lives that...
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all of us have suggestedf just how much we owe to this country in terms of what itms has provided us. but we bring a great deal that makes the country what it is now. it is diversity, potential, they think we are a good fit with the diversity of the panel. >> i will also add that 21 of the ways it can be broken is through allowing people to hear about those andmeti sometimes cheaper solara so removes that to they think an immigrant just comes to the country and benefits anything it is not easy. bid is a lot of -- are working hard summer coming to join but there is the perception they come and take freely. they are not.th they were card and bring something of value but also gave something as well.e av i just imagine to myself for example,, if none of us were in this country after all, the average classroom setting in the university would be quiteti boring. [laughter] i am serious. suddenly it would. there would not be educational although intriguing as it is when we come from the different background.na but earlier, your great grandfather came from some place but we forget thatly f whe
all of us have suggestedf just how much we owe to this country in terms of what itms has provided us. but we bring a great deal that makes the country what it is now. it is diversity, potential, they think we are a good fit with the diversity of the panel. >> i will also add that 21 of the ways it can be broken is through allowing people to hear about those andmeti sometimes cheaper solara so removes that to they think an immigrant just comes to the country and benefits anything it is not...
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early in the game i couldn't use the word americans very easily in this book because everybody is an american. if you go back to about 1760, everybody is a tory essentially. they are all british subjects. and they see the king as the man they're going to worship every sunday as most of them were, they are going to pray for the king, and the wherewithal, there's only one trading partner and that england, and that's the way things were but as the revolution started to percolate and the sons of italy -- [laughter] wow, where am i? the sons of liberty started functioning in boston and new york. things started to change. and a group started to question the revolution. for a while it was a political debate. i can across the club that was formed in plymouth, it was formed in 1770 or 71. go ahead and look it up, it's in the book. and there was called the old colony club pity was founded primarily by descendants passengers on the mayflower. there isn't a better american pedigree to say you descended from the mayflower. a lot of the people who descended from the mayflower and the generation of
early in the game i couldn't use the word americans very easily in this book because everybody is an american. if you go back to about 1760, everybody is a tory essentially. they are all british subjects. and they see the king as the man they're going to worship every sunday as most of them were, they are going to pray for the king, and the wherewithal, there's only one trading partner and that england, and that's the way things were but as the revolution started to percolate and the sons of...
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use this time to learn a skill. this is your opportunity. >> host: one thing that interested me is you don't think much of christianity though. >> guest: i don't think much of any organized religion. ..
use this time to learn a skill. this is your opportunity. >> host: one thing that interested me is you don't think much of christianity though. >> guest: i don't think much of any organized religion. ..
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and to urge us to act. none of us want to bump up on the debt ceiling. none of us are advocating that. what we're advocating is to take action now, real, serious budget reform, to put us on a more fiscally sustainable path. we need to do that now. that's why we came to the floor with these concerns on the patent bill. we need to do that now. we need to act now. we need to get on the fiscally sustainable path now. the clock is ticking, as chairman bernanke reminded us before the banking committee this morning. with that, madam president, i look forward to locking in a vote on this matter and in the consent that establishes that, we will be happy to withdraw the other amendment and simply have one vote on the now-combined toomey-vitter amendment. with that, madam president, i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. coburn: i'd ask that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without obje
and to urge us to act. none of us want to bump up on the debt ceiling. none of us are advocating that. what we're advocating is to take action now, real, serious budget reform, to put us on a more fiscally sustainable path. we need to do that now. that's why we came to the floor with these concerns on the patent bill. we need to do that now. we need to act now. we need to get on the fiscally sustainable path now. the clock is ticking, as chairman bernanke reminded us before the banking...
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and i'm pleased it's been used, but remember it is the first time ever it's been used. this act, to make it even more important that it's being used and frustrating it hasn't been used, this act by the state department had immediate effect as i and many others have been suggesting that it would since the passage of these tools to the administration. within days of the state department's actions against naftaran, and according to news reports at the time, european firms such as dutch, royal dutch shale, total, state oil and italy e.n.i. announced they would pull operations out of iran's energy sector. exactly the kind of that the congress hoped this would have. on december 29, 2010, deputy steinberg announced investigation into firms that had not yet announced the petroleum sefrpblgt while the full list of these firms remains classified, public reports suggest that list includes at least a dozen firms, many of which are chinese, including the chinese national offshore oil company, chinese national petroleum company, and unipec. other firms come from germany, from turkey
and i'm pleased it's been used, but remember it is the first time ever it's been used. this act, to make it even more important that it's being used and frustrating it hasn't been used, this act by the state department had immediate effect as i and many others have been suggesting that it would since the passage of these tools to the administration. within days of the state department's actions against naftaran, and according to news reports at the time, european firms such as dutch, royal...
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both of us -- we worked and i used to work for a financial institution but we also share a common interest and love of history and you obviously do having gone back and taking a look at the period that you've described. and it's very appropriate, i think, as a lead into what i'm going to say today about the relationship between where we are today and where atchison and marshall and truman and others were at the end of world war ii. first, let me apologize for being late but i was actually at a celebration that secretary clinton and michelle obama held for the 100th anniversary of world women's day. and i mention this if part because it was very impressive to see women leaders from all over the world there and it took a little longer because all had very interesting things to say. but prior to this, i was talking to secretary clinton and mrs. obama about this and i was explaining that i was going to give a speech at lunch. and we were sort of reflecting on the role of women in economics. and the point that i try to make in various speeches, when i was at goldman sachs we published a report
both of us -- we worked and i used to work for a financial institution but we also share a common interest and love of history and you obviously do having gone back and taking a look at the period that you've described. and it's very appropriate, i think, as a lead into what i'm going to say today about the relationship between where we are today and where atchison and marshall and truman and others were at the end of world war ii. first, let me apologize for being late but i was actually at a...
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and i'd like to see us do more of the. i'd like to see us do more buying at deal q. and not along where you have four or five similar products, buying well below eoq simple because the service can't afford to buy more. we should be facing, so they're more economical, make better use of plans, tooling, and so forth. so in all these ways we need to look at our enterprise and see how we can use markers because it's good for all of us. >> your buying power point, the second part sounds like a task inside government, also a requirement. how will it be measured? >> it is certainly a requirement within the government, buffer industry here is how does. i'm asking people who are starting programs now, this is going to help us with things we start in the past, so if you're thinking about improving acquisition all you're thinking about is how to start new programs better. you are only touching a piece of the budget but still it's important peace. and as we do start new programs and we will be starting the ss dx summary, new bomber for the air force, the army's ground combat veh
and i'd like to see us do more of the. i'd like to see us do more buying at deal q. and not along where you have four or five similar products, buying well below eoq simple because the service can't afford to buy more. we should be facing, so they're more economical, make better use of plans, tooling, and so forth. so in all these ways we need to look at our enterprise and see how we can use markers because it's good for all of us. >> your buying power point, the second part sounds like a...